Re: Build Emacs from CVS

From:

Pavel Janík

Subject:

Re: Build Emacs from CVS

Date:

Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:40:08 +0200

User-agent:

Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1.50

From: Stefan Naewe <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:22:14 +0200
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target
> `/home/stefan/src/emacs-cvs/src/../lisp/abbrev.elc', needed by
> `../etc/DOC'. Stop.
> make: *** [src] Error 2
>
>
> ../lisp/abbrev.elc is indeed not there. After looking through the Makefiles
> a little bit I came to the conclusion that there's a circular dependency:
> 'emacs' depends on '../etc/DOC' which depends on '../lisp/abbrev.elc' which
> depends on (i.e. gets built with) 'emacs'.
>
> Any ideas on that??
Instead of make, run make bootstrap.
BTW - shouldn't we create CVS FAQ? ;-) I think this is the most frequently
asked question today.
--
Pavel Janík
In the beginning, Emacs said "Let there be text." And there was text.
-- Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> in
alt.religion.emacs